[DC LoCo] Recent 10.04 LTS Observations - ONLY

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to use Ubuntu 11.04 and had major issues.  I could see the
> wallpaper, but nothing of the desktop UI.  Graphic elements of the
> desktop randomly flickered in and our too quickly for me to see what
> was on them.  In general, it was unusable.  The loading splash screens
> were also heavily corrected with white lines of what looked like ASCII
> text.  I tried Kubuntu and Lubuntu 11.04 and had similar issues with
> the splash screens.
>
> GPU: 8x AGP Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 w/512MB DDR
>
> I did not get an error message saying my hardware could not run Unity.

Have you installed the Nvidia drivers yet?  If not, I'd log into
classic GNOME instead of Unity and install them through there, then
try Unity.  I don't think it gives any such messages at all.  It
should just revert to classic GNOME if there's no 3D support, but
maybe you have one of the few Nvidia cards that has
semi-existent-but-not-good-yet 3D support in Nouveau?

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Mackenzie Morgan